Everyone is expecting Blizzard to announce the next expansion at Blizzcon in November, as usual. Knowing that the expansion timeline has to go Announcement -> Beta -> Release, if they announce it in November then we’d be looking at a summer 2016 release, which means we would be stuck with our current meager content for a year or more. This could be disastrous for the game.

A move that could save the game would be to announce the expansion at Gamescom in early August. If they do that, then we could see a release as early as March or so. Then we’d be playing current content for 8-ish months. We’d have only 16 months between expansion releases. That’s a little more tolerable. Still not ideal, but a step in the right direction.

So pay close attention at Gamescom in two weeks. If there’s no announcement from Blizzard, then I think we’re in for a long, tough wait.